On 29/08/2012 04:21 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/28/2012 1:29, Invisible wrote:
>> Is it because it requires people to actually learn new ideas and
>> concepts?
>
> Nope! Remember, everyone has to learn new ideas and concepts for their
> first language.

Sure. But the vast majority of programmers already know how to write 
imperative code. Learning a fundamentally new way of structuring stuff 
is no small feat.

>> Or because it isn't backwards compatible with
>> the massive legacy codebases that already exist?
>
> Again, no. Remember that LISP predates COBOL and C++ and probably even
> C. All of that predates Java and Javascript.

Remember also that Lisp never actually became popular...

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